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Design flaws initially stymied the F-111’s success in combat operations, and the airframe was retired by 1996. However, the Aardvarks’ legacy lives on among aviation...
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Design flaws initially stymied the F-111’s success in combat operations, and the airframe was retired by 1996. However, the Aardvarks’ legacy lives on among aviation...
The F-100F also served as “Fast Forward Air Controllers” with the back seater spotting enemies, which were then marked with smoke rockets to direct...
The XF-90 reportedly achieved supersonic speeds fifteen times. However, in August 1950 the XF-90 was pitted in a fly-off against the McDonnell Douglas XF-88...
The YF-12 Could Have Been Special – When the Soviet Union’s MiG-25 “Foxbat” supersonic interceptor took to the skies during the Cold War, the U.S....
As an experimental platform, Long Beach was the only ship of her class. She was also the last cruiser built for the U.S. Navy as a...
The idea was to modify seven existing Blackbird variants to be fitted with these improved capabilities. Ultimately, however, the long-range interceptor variant of the...
Former Master Sergeant at U.S. Air Force Jim Goodall told the aviation outlet that out of all the former SR-71 Blackbird pilots he had...
Meet the SR-71: The Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” was a true speed demon. No interceptor ever really had a chance of catching it. During the...
Today, the legendary B-36 Peacemakers have been relegated to museum duty. However, the platform that never saw combat remains revered by aviation buffs.
Prior to the onsite of hostilities in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, quite a few pundits and prognosticators stated that, on-paper at least, the...